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Today on an election day edition of Flashpoints: As Americans head to the polls, we take a look at the human toll of the Bush administration and discuss concerns about the future with Phyllis Bennis; plus, the use of depleted uranium weapons up ten-fold in Iraq, we’ll speak to Major Doug Rokke about the silenced … Continued
US bombing of Fallujah intensifies in preparation for a major strike, meanwhile, kidnappings and resistance attacks multiply; also, a primer on how Bush is going to steal the 2004 election with Greg Palast; plus, was Bush wired for the debates with Kerry? Post-election protests in San Francisco no matter who wins; and the Knight Report.
Osama Bin Laden releases a videotape claiming responsibility for the September 11th attacks and warns of more to come; plus, will there be a draft? What is the real status of re-instituting the draft in America; Haiti’s pro-democracy movement under siege, we’ll talk about the continuing nightmare with Kevin Pina; and Flashpoints en Español.
A nine year old Palestinian girl shot in her head by Israeli snipers while she stood on her front porch, we’ll speak to our correspondent in Gaza about the latest attacks and the Sharon disengagement plan; also, in studio with Flashpoints special correspondent Kevin Pina on the ongoing purge of the pro-democracy movement in Haiti, … Continued
We continue our reporting on a growing number of US soldiers refusing to go to Iraq or do battle once they get there, we’ll speak to the leader of the movement of military families resisting the war; also, former high-level Bush 1 official Catherine Austin Fitts interviews 9-11 researcher Michael Ruppert on his new theories … Continued
Greg Palast catches the Florida Republicans red-handed trying to disenfranchise the African-American community in the upcoming vote; plus, Israeli occupying forces swarm into the Gaza strip, killing Palestinians with new Hellfire missiles, we’ll have an eyewitness account from on the ground in Rafah; also, an analysis of Sharon’s decision on the Gaza so-called disengagement plan; … Continued
The Iraqi resistance executes 49 Iraqi military recruits while posing as soldiers at a check-point. We’ll have a report from Bagdad and we’ll speak with Asad Abu Khalil about the bloody occupations in Iraq and Palestine. Also, Brazils reality politics in strife-torn Haiti. And of course, the Knight Report with Robert Knight.
Drumbeat coverage of the unfolding events in Haiti, we’ll have a live update from Kevin Pina in Port-au-Prince; plus, Kim Sengupta in Baghdad reports on the continued killing of Iraqi children by US forces; and Pratap Chatterjee talks about the ongoing corporate plunder in Iraq.
We’ll go back to Port-au-Prince, where the ongoing purge of pro-democracy activists by the US-installed puppet continues to take its toll; also, Guava: First Bite, Last Breath, an accounting of the last hours of a thirteen year old Palestinian boy before he was shot by Israeli occupiers in Gaza; plus, artists respond to the illegal … Continued
Francois Sorel, a national leader of the Lavalas pro-democracy movement, escapes the death squads of Haiti, we’ll also have an update with our correspondent Kevin Pina in the field; Israeli occupiers continue to kill Palestinians, demolish houses and steal land in Gaza and the West Bank; we feature Crossing the Rubicon: Michael Ruppert’s long-awaited book … Continued
